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Post by solgroupie on Aug 1, 2009 17:10:13 GMT -5
i don't think this thread has been done before.
i found the soundtrack to grease today at a used cd/book store and bought it. i had this on vinyl when i was a kid and about wore it out - i'm a little embarrassed to admit i saw the movie when i was around ten years old - i'm not kidding - at least ten different times at the theater. then i went for like, twenty years neither watching the movie or listening to any of the songs, so i expect this will be quite the trip down memory lane for me.
i love soundtracks - you get such a different mix of artists and styles, which can lead you to genres you'd never found otherwise.
aside from grease, i love my soundtrack copy of rocky horror picture show, glory, chicago and the commitments. i know there are half a dozen others i can't think of now.
what say you?
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Post by Chuck on Aug 1, 2009 17:18:36 GMT -5
A lot of Henry Mancini soundtracks are classics: Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's, etc.
The soundtrack to Picnic was always one of my favorites, as were From Russia, With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball.
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Post by Satchmo on Aug 1, 2009 18:31:21 GMT -5
Yay, another fan of The Commitments! Best soundtrack ever!
And I completely agree with you, Chuck. Mancini was a genius.
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Post by solgroupie on Aug 2, 2009 19:49:12 GMT -5
you can usually count on david lynch and quentin tarantino to put out good soundtracks to their movies. i've loved the soundtrack to the television series twin peaks for years. however, the one for the movie, twin peaks - fire walk with me was pretty weak, i thought. and i love the soundtrack to lynch's movie, wild at heart. i usually skip the song where nicholas cage sings love me tender, but the rest of it is great.
and the soundtrack to pulp fiction is one of my favorites.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Aug 3, 2009 23:14:25 GMT -5
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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Post by callipygias on Aug 4, 2009 9:33:43 GMT -5
I love the soundtracks to The Searchers and O Brother Where Art Thou? but my all-time favorite is far and away the solo zither score from The Third Man. I didn't know until I just checked on wikipedia that the zither player, Anton Karas, was an unknown wine-bar performer "discovered" by director Carol Reed, and that the score to The Third Man made him an international star and was even a chart-topping single.
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Aug 4, 2009 12:18:13 GMT -5
Goblin's music for Suspiria is the best score I've ever heard in a horror movie; surpases even The Exorcist, in my opinion. As for a soundtrack that has actual songs that you can sing along to, I think I know all the words to the songs from Chicago and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. And as for my so-bad-it's-good option, I own the soundtrack to Jean Claude Van Damme's opus Bloodsport.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Aug 4, 2009 12:18:30 GMT -5
aside from grease, i love my soundtrack copy of... glory... what say you? I'm so glad you mentioned Glory. It's one of my favorite albums ever, one of my favorite movies ever, and one of the best late-night driving discs anyone can own. Definitely my favorite soundtrack. So good, in fact, that James Horner has been stealing from it for every subsequent movie he's scored. It totally ruined Braveheart for me when, during the climactic scene, the melody from Glory started playing. I've also got a lot of mileage from my Muppet Movie soundtrack CD. |
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Post by Satchmo on Aug 4, 2009 13:12:29 GMT -5
The Blues Brothers has a great soundtrack.
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Post by solgroupie on Aug 4, 2009 15:14:00 GMT -5
god, how could i have forgotten the blues brothers? i love every song on that album. their version of she caught the katy is my favorite.
some others, now that i've had a chance to think about it:
nightmare before christmas
the lion king
fantasia
woodstock
the crow
singles
ray
tommy
the divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
the breakfast club
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Aug 4, 2009 19:45:13 GMT -5
Goblin's music for Suspiria is the best score I've ever heard in a horror movie; surpases even The Exorcist, in my opinion. As for a soundtrack that has actual songs that you can sing along to, I think I know all the words to the songs from Chicago and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. And as for my so-bad-it's-good option, I own the soundtrack to Jean Claude Van Damme's opus Bloodsport. Oh yeah, how could I have forgotten Goblin? I have a CD of theirs that has bits of songs and scores from Suspiria as well as other films and Italian TV shows they did. |
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Post by glowgirl004 on Aug 8, 2009 0:09:49 GMT -5
Rocky Horror Picture Show, hands down. Tied for first place on my All-Time Favorite Movies list, and the soundtrack rocks.
Do Broadway soundtracks count? If so, I'm choosing Rent because all the music from that is incredible.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Aug 15, 2009 11:11:45 GMT -5
I'm going with non-musicals only. Charade, Days of Heaven, Bridge/River Kwai, The Great Escape, Dr. Zhivago, 2001, O Brother Where Art Thou, Cold Mountain, and many more. Not as good (not as humable, I'd say), but very good for what they were trying to convey: Psycho, the Godfather (I liked the music better than the movie), the original Terminator, The Sting.
I'm a soundtrack nut, actually.
If I absolutely HAD to pick one musical movie, it'd be Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Thankfully, I don't have to pick.
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